On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Alejandro Rios <alejandro.r...@avatar.com.co> wrote:
> 1. Should I upload it to unstable or to proposed-updates? That depends on your intention. At the minimum, the security issue should be fixed in oldstable even though security support for it expires in February. For that you need to follow this procedure: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#bug-security By uploading to unstable and more importantly maintaining the package in the future you ensure that destar will remain available in Debian and be available in future releases. > 2. If uploading to unstable, should I make other changes different from > those that are related to the security bugs (i.e. for lintian warnings, > standars version), or not? If you intend for the package to be available in future Debian releases, you should do some or all of the following: Clean up the package for lintian, policy, dh7, dpkg-source v3 etc. Get in contact with upstream (which seems to have become active again since destar was removed) to get the security issue fixed there and a new release made. If you have time you could also get involved in developing the software to ensure it does not get removed from Debian again. Contact the former maintainers of the Debian destar package - Debian VoIP Team - and ask them if they would be interested in maintaining it now that upstream is active again. If so you could join the team and help them maintain it in their SVN repository. If not, then you could maintain it yourself through sponsorship: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html http://wiki.debian.org/SponsorChecklist When a package is removed from Debian, all the bugs are closed (by Marco Rodrigues). So you should look at the bug list (archived and non-archived) for destar and reopen the ones that are closed in version 0.2.2-5.2+rm, then try to get them fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=both;src=destar Fix all the issues listed on the PTS page: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/destar.html Ensure that the package will pass the NEW queue: http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html Import the changes from the Ubuntu package: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/destar Look at the Ubuntu bugs too (inc closed ones): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/destar The next Debian/Ubuntu releases are quite soon so you'll need to do the above fairly quickly. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
